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Re: [lojban] Digest for lojban@googlegroups.com - 11 Messages in 5 Topics



About the name of planets, I think the naming them by numbers could work only if the structure of the solar system is known by everyone. {pavyplini} or {plini.xipa} (the . is mandatory since {plinixipa} might be mistaken for a fu'ivla) could work. In fact, jbovlaste already has {pavyplini} and friends.

That said, I don't like this naming scheme very much,  I'd like to have some cmene for planets in our solar system. I would be tempted to use the greek/latin names as basis but I would really like to have someone who could inject some Arabic or Chinese into it.

Our moon has already a lojban word {lunra} that means "x1 is a major natural satellite/moon of planet x2" (by default our Moon). Jbovlaste also offers a word (a fu'ivla) for a generic satellite: {mluni} "x1 is a satellite/moon orbiting x2".

If you like the numbering scheme probably {lunra.xivore} could be the second moon of Mars. What I don't really like of using numbers is that it assumes a precise knowledge of the entire system: which moon of Jupiter is Io ?

A carbon nanotube could be a {navtabytu'u} and a space elevator a {kensa galgau}.

For the asterorid belts, I would try {plinyspi djine} (ring of planet fragments).

Lastly (take it "cum grano salis") {lo nundoifli cu mibysnadygau} for "your failure makes my success.

remod

btw, does you Sci-Fi occours inour solar system?




On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Terry Sofian <tsofian@aol.com> wrote:
Thanks for the assistance with "rickshaw"
 
Here are other terms and phrases  I'd like to have help with
 
 
More for my science fiction setting-(If anyone wants additional details on this setting and how it uses lojban please let me know!)
 
"Carbon Nanotube"
 
“Your failure makes for my success”
 
I feel the easiest way to name planets is by numbering them outwards from the system center-So what would the first planet, second, third, fourth, fifth planets be called in this system?
 
What is lojban for asteriod belt?
 
Our Moon would probably be described as "major natural satellite of planet three"-how would that be translated  and finally
 
What is lojban for "Space elevator"?
 
 
Thank you
 
Terry

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